Exploits My Gifts.

"Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most." ~ John Stott as quoted by Scot McKnight in One.Life, p.23.

Exploited the most? Whew... I on the other hand have coined the phrase "protecting my gifts" or "exhausted my gifts..."

But God's calling as exploitation? And as a way of filling and fueling at the same time as draining and giving...

McKnight continues: "The only thing that "exploits your gifts" or that taxes you to the limits or that fills your soul or that challenges you to live the dream the most is following Jesus..."

Things to murmur over, to pull threads through, to align and testify and question and dream...